Achtung! History

January 1931 and the Berlin district of Friedrichshain has become a battle ground. Berlin, in the midst of a horrid recession racked by unemployment is finding its working class population being pushe...

28 Sep 202039min

What does the years after the war hold in store for Wernher von Braun and his V2 rocket program. Find out in the latest and final round of The Nazi and the Moon. Achtung! History is produced by The B...

18 Sep 202056min

The war is over, von Braun has handed himself in, but what is to become of the man who had pushed the Nazi rocket program, a man, belonging to the now criminal SS, who dreamed of space but ended up cr...

11 Sep 202045min

After comparing Himmler's offer of SS control over the A-4 rocket program to drowning flowers in manure, Wernher von Braun finds himself in a very unpleasant situation. Achtung! History is produced b...

4 Sep 202055min

** Warning. This podcast episode contains descriptions some listeners may find disturbing. Due to the nature of the history involved in the Nazi rocket production and the lives it destroyed, an unders...

28 Aug 202051min

Wernher von Braun has gone from firing rocket powered children's toys along Berlin streets to a research centre near Berlin and finally to his own research facility, financed by the Wehrmacht and Luft...

21 Aug 202059min

Part 1 of a mini series on Wernher von Braun, the scientist behind Nazi Germany's rocket program that would use slave labour and lead to the deaths of tens of thousands who were forced to produce the ...

14 Aug 202054min

Napoleon's march into Russia failed disastrously in 1812 and now the remnants of his Grand Armee are on the retreat. His former enemies he forced to bow to his will with previous great victories steal...

7 Aug 202038min